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Pilots particularly 50-year-old zaharie ahmad shah who owned a flight simulator at his house and had ties to malaysian radicalism. >> good morning. >> what do you think happened? >> well, in the beginning i thought if we have to look at the evidence that we actually have,ç that's the activity of the airplane, the way it climbed up over 45,000 feet and then went down radically. that doesn't sound like an airplane problem. i can't imagine what kind of an airplane, maintenance problem, mechanical problem that could be. in the beginning i thought it was a struggle of some kind to take over the a...

Unique circumstances that we have in this situation. >> greg feith, what stands out as a possible indication of what happened, the most clear signal? >> well, mika, it's evident that, you know, early on when the flight track changed, as soon as that airplane diverted from its track towards beijing, there was something more than just some sort of mechanical problem. there was enough data for us to know that that airplane was intentionally turned and it went on a different flight track and now affiliate radar coverage has lost that aircraft as a primary satellite off pings we know that aircraft ...

Didn't mess around, they didn't go here, anywhere. hijackers know where they have to go and they have gps. it is easy to understand, easier than the plane, and they get there. the erratic flying does not point to me the hijacking. >> what does it point to? >> a mechanical problem, either hypoxia, a loss of steering capability like japan airlines. or a situation like stewart, where the pilots are no longer flying if you're just all over the place. but the second part of the news that came out today that rang so true it was frightening. and that is that the plane was up and down all over the pla...

Didn't mess around, they didn't go here, anywhere. hijackers know where they have to go and they have gps. it is easy to understand, easier than the plane, and they get there. the erratic flying does not point to me the hijacking. >> what does it point to? >> a mechanical problem, either hypoxia, a loss of steering capability like japan airlines. or a situation like stewart, where the pilots are no longer flying if you're just all over the place. but the second part of the news that came out today that rang so true it was frightening. and that is that the plane was up and down all over the pla...

But add some caveats, this san investigation. they have a number of clues. they're trying to connect those clues as best they can. they've had clues, for instance yesterday those satellite images that turned out to be a false lead. but what gives them confidence is they have more than one clue that leads in the direction here. really one of the key ones is that radar data. they've had more time to analyze that radar data to get more confidence that this is the heading the plane was on when they lost contact with it. >> has this new information, jim -- and i know you're well plugged into the u....